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FANCIERS’ JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by Joseph M. 
Wade, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 
^ ANCIERS’^j OURNAL AND^ OULTRY (j^XCHANGE, 
JOSEPH M. WADE, Editor and Proprietor. 
Published Weekly at 39 North Ninth Street, Philadelphia. 
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ABVERTISEMENTS 
From reliable parties, on any subject interesting to Fanciers, will be 
inserted at 10 cents per line, set solid ; if displayed, 15 cents per line of 
space will be charged ; about 12 words make a line, and 12 lines make an 
inch of space. 
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Advertisements from unknown parties must be paid for in advance. 
Sherman & Co., Printers, Philadelphia. 
Large Sale of Poultry. — J. F. Ferris, Stamford, Con- 
necticut, has sold his entire breeding stock of Light and Dark 
Brahmas, and Partridge Cochins, to Mr. C. G. Trexler, Allen- 
town, Pa. The collection consisted of many fine pedigree 
birds, bred by Buzzell, Crosby, Dibble, Chamberlain, &c., 
and we predict for Mr. Trexler a full measure of success. 
CoF^ESpO^] DEVICE. 
Editor Fanciers’ Journal: 
After a number of years of experience in raising poultry 
and other stock, I beg leave to offer the following sugges- 
tions : 
1st. Success in raising fancy poultry will depend largely 
upon care and attention. 
What is called chicken cholera is occasioned, in many in- 
stances by dampness, vermin, and filth. 
Since I have uniformly kept fowls in coops well floored, 
ventilated, whitewashed, sulphured, and cleaned, I have lost 
none by disease. 
If farmers would treat their sheep, cows, or even swine, 
as many do their fowls, they would soon find that there is 
no profitable stock-raising without intelligent and faithful 
care. 
It is better, then, only to raise a few fowls of a single va- 
riety than to crowd a half dozen varieties into small and 
uncomfortable quarters, soon to lose the half of them from 
roup, cholera, or other disease. 
The undersigned has five acres of range for his fowls, and 
yet prefers keeping but one variety, as to excel in one thing 
is better than to fail in many. One variety will be sufficient 
to occasion all the attention which most persons can devote 
to the subject, and its improvement alone will require care- 
ful management. 
Thus there will be no annoyance from one variety getting 
mixed with another, nor from cocks breaking over their 
own premises. 
Fowls, moreover, to my eye, never look so well as when 
seen upon a large lawn, in large flocks, uniform in color and 
condition. * * 
McEwansville, Pa., July 29, 1874. 
Editor Fanciers’ Journal: 
Some years ago a small cur dog came to our house. He 
seemed quite friendly with us all, but at the same time was 
very uneasy, seeming to be searching for something all 
about the premises. As my father was taking a pet calf on 
to the lawn from the barn the dog happened to see it, when 
he gave a yell of delight, and ran at once and made friends 
with it, and he staid by it day and night, driving off the 
flies, and licking it in the most devoted and affectionate man- 
ner. After awhile the calf was sold and removed in the 
night The next morning the dog was missing, though he 
did not go with the calf, and we have never seen him since. 
Though it is a singular case, we conclude that the dog had 
been accustomed to a drove or herd of calves or cattle, and 
had somehow got lost, so the pet calf seemed to him like a 
familiar friend. 
Somerville, N. J. Thos. Morgan. 
Dear Journal : 
Doubtless many of your readers will remember a commu- 
nication of mine to your columns some weeks since, wherein 
I described how a friend of mine was swindled in purchasing 
some Dominique eggs. Immediately after the article referred 
to appeared in print I received a letter from Mr. J. Y. Bick- 
nell, of Westmoreland, Oneida County, N. Y., indorsing my 
article, and stating that he was down on such humbugging, 
and if 1 would send him the name and address of my friend 
he would make him a present of a sitting of Dominique eggs. 
I complied with his request, and he promptly fulfilled his 
promise ; the eggs coming safely packed in a good basket. 
•They were set under a good hen, and in duo time she hatched 
nine strong, healthy chicks. Meeting Mr. Bicknell for the 
first time, on July 22d, in New York, I thanked him for 
his generosity on behalf of my friend. He replied that the 
simple fact of the eggs hatching so satisfactorily was ample 
compensation. Now if all persons who sell fowls and eggs 
were like Mr. Bicknell, we should have few complaints of 
unfair dealing, and more confidence in breeders and fanciers 
generally. 
Respectfully yours, W. E. Flower. 
Shoemakertown, Pa., July 27th, 1874. 
Editor Fanciers’ Journal: 
In your paper, of late, I lnive noticed statements of chicks 
produced from eggs shipped to distant points. I wish to add 
the result of eggs (ten Light Brahmas, ten Dark Brahmas, 
and ten Bull' Cochins) shipped from this city to St. John, 
New Brunswick, a distance of nearly four thousand miles, 
by rail. I used a box about ten by fourteen inches, and 
four inches deep; straw cushions on the bottom; and with 
a leather strap for a handle. At the bottom of the box 
(inside), I placed about an inch thick of curled hair ; wrap- 
ped the eggs in newspaper ; packed them side by side ; and 
filled the interstices with rice hulls. I then put curled 
hair on top, and the cover was screwed down. 
The eggs reached their destination in eleven days ; and, 
upon opening the box, six eggs were found cracked ; twenty- 
four eggs were consequently set within a few days after re- 
ceipt, and produced nineteen chicks ; five eggs were unfertile 
or rotten ; three chicks died; sixteen were good healthy chicks 
